We Will Not Be Hijacked

<p><strong><em>If the world had listened argued Bar-Lev 9/11 events might have been avoided.</em></strong></p><p>September 6th 1970 was a seminal day for international civil aviation. For the first time after dozens of hijackings of passenger planes around the globe - El Al Captain Uri Bar-Lev and his crew managed to thwart an attempt to hijack their plane while it was still in the air.</p><p>To this day their actions are considered the one and only thwarting operation in civil aviation's history.</p><p>Uri Bar-Lev's story tells of the beginning of the Israeli Air Force and El Al Airlines. From his childhood in Avihayil through his moves to Haifa and Tel Aviv to learn a craft his joining the Palmach (an elite combined strike force of the Haganah) to serendipitously becoming a fighter pilot.</p><p>His is a story filled with moments of levity and uncompromising battles all of which he came on top of injuries sustained in a severe car accident thwarting terrorists the Israeli Security Agency (ISA) aviation elements in Israel and around the world and finally his battle with cancer.</p>